1. Daniel Isaac Schechter was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic.
18 Facts About Danny Schechter
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Danny Schechter wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, journalistic control and ethics, and medicine.
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Danny Schechter produced and directed six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela from the time Mandela was a political prisoner to his election and service as President of South Africa.
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Danny Schechter continued to work in media with ABC and the start-up cable television news station CNN until he abandoned corporate media and founded TV and film production company Globalvision with his friend and longtime associate Rory O'Connor.
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Danny Schechter was born in New York City, on June 27,1942.
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Danny Schechter's mother, Ruth Lisa Schechter, was a secretary and a published poet; his father, Jerry Schechter, was a garment center pattern maker and a sculptor.
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Grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrant socialists, Danny Schechter grew up in the Bronx, in the garment union-sponsored Amalgamated housing cooperative development.
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Danny Schechter attended DeWitt Clinton High School, and graduated in 1964 from Cornell University, where he wrote for The Cornell Daily Sun and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.
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Danny Schechter later received a master's degree from the London School of Economics and an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg State University.
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Danny Schechter joined the African National Congress as a part of the organization's "London Recruits", who were tasked with entering South Africa undetected by authorities and conveying communication between exiled members of the ANC and members still in South Africa.
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Danny Schechter was a civil rights worker and the communications director of the Northern Student Movement, and served as a community organizer in a War on Poverty program.
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Danny Schechter worked as an assistant to the Mayor of Detroit in 1966.
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Danny Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, where he taught in 1969, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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Danny Schechter assisted musician Steven Van Zandt and record producer Arthur Baker in creating Artists United Against Apartheid, which was a group of musicians who released a protest album in 1985 entitled Sun City.
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Danny Schechter was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism.
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From 1999 to 2010, Danny Schechter was executive editor and "blogger-in-chief" at the now-defunct MediaChannel.
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Danny Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19,2015, in New York City.
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Danny Schechter produced and directed many television specials and documentary films, including:.